Public Relations

San Francisco Zoo Hires PR Flack to Try and Save its Skin After Tiger Mauling

by Anne Landman — January 8, 2008 - 1:16pm

Look, but don't taunt.The situation was about as bad as it could get for a zoo. On Christmas Day, Tatiana the tiger escaped from her enclosure in the San Francisco Zoo, mauled a 17 year old boy to death and severely injured two of his companions.

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San Francisco Chronicle, January 7, 2008

Stars and Stripes Fights DoD Hype

by Sheldon Rampton — January 4, 2008 - 11:02pm

"Top editors at the military newspaper Stars and Stripes are asking for full disclosure of the paper's relationship with a Department of Defense publicity program, called America Supports You, after disclosures that money for the program was funneled through the newspaper," reports Sara Abruzzesse. "The newspaper's two top editors have asked that the acting publisher, Max D.

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New York Times, December 28, 2007

Tortured Reasoning for Destroying Evidence of Torture

by Judith Siers-Poisson — January 2, 2008 - 3:32pm

Steve Benen writes that "As it turns out, the reasoning behind the CIA's decision to record interrogations on video, stop recording interrogations on video, and destroy the interrogation videos was all exactly the same: officials were hoping to avoid a public-relations nightmare." They were unsuccessful, of course, since the media reported widely on the destruction of the tapes and

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The Carpetbagger Report, December 30, 2007

An Industry Look at 2007's Biggest PR Blunders

by Judith Siers-Poisson — December 21, 2007 - 10:55pm

Fineman PR of San Francisco, California, has released their list of top ten PR blunders of 2007. Topping the list at number one is "No Reporters? No Problem" -- the fake news conference staged by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) about their response to the California wild fires.

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The Huffington Post, December 15, 2007

Numbers Game

by Bob Burton — December 21, 2007 - 4:42am

In late November the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers announced the results of a survey of 353 East African corporate executives for its "Most Respected Company" award for 2007. The winner was the Kenyan mobile phone company, Safaricom. One of Safaricom's claims to fame is that it boasts the highest profits of any company in the region.

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Daily Nation (Kenya) , December 17, 2007

Bush a Uniter -- of Iraqis, Against the U.S.

by Diane Farsetta — December 19, 2007 - 3:24pm

The PR firm outed in 2005 for planting U.S. propaganda in Iraqi newspapers is still in Iraq, working for the U.S. military.

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Washington Post, December 19, 2007

Playing Public Relations Games

by Diane Farsetta — December 13, 2007 - 3:22pm

"Sixty percent of US consumers polled agree that the government should regulate the sale of violent or mature video games," states a press release from the PR firm Hill & Knowlton (H&K).

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Washington Post, December 11, 2007

Unions to Lehane: You Down with AMPTP?

by Diane Farsetta — December 12, 2007 - 5:17pm

Concerned that public opinion is firmly on the side of striking Writers Guild of America (WGA) members, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) hired a bipartisan stable of new PR consultants.

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Los Angeles Times, December 6, 2007
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